AboutDFIR Content Update 12/12/2019

Greetings! The latest changes are detailed below: Challenges & CTFs - new CTFs have been added Jobs - there's been multiple new postings In other news, I passed the GCFE after a few months of studying! I now have more free time available to work on my ever-growing to-do list for this site. Next on the list is to go through the painstaking process of standardizing the layout of all data tables on the site.…
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AboutDFIR Content Update 12/6/2019

Greetings! The site continues to evolve and grow: Tools & Artifacts - Windows - added a few tools and links to videos/blog posts to the data table, removed empty entries Videos/Webinars - added a few new YouTube channels Preservation Letter/Search Warrant Templates - Facebook - I updated quite a bit of this page to cater it more to Facebook since their portal requires a different process than most other companies Jobs - there's been multiple…
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AboutDFIR Content Update 12/2/2019

Greetings! More changes happening with plenty more to come: Every hyperlink on the site now should be in blue text to make it easier to distinguish between regular black text. I know for me this is a very welcome change! The home page menus have gone through an extensive reorganization and will continue to be refined until we're at a logical resting point. Look for some pages to be merged with others as content grows.…
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AboutDFIR Content Update 11/27/2019

Greetings! There's been some new additions to the site that I am excited to share and expand upon as time goes on. Without further ado: Preservation Letter/Search Warrant Templates - This is a new section on the site that I look to flesh out quite a bit as time goes on and needs arise. If anyone has any preservation letter/search warrant language they need, please let us know! Alternatively, if there's some language that has…
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AboutDFIR Content Update 11/25/2019

Greetings! I added a couple new pages to the site so I wanted to share the news with a quick blog post: Cell Tower Mapping - I've added some resources to this page that was useful to me when I was a Detective. I hope others can find them useful, as well Password Cracking - I've added links to multiple password lists as well as the Hashcat Wiki. Everyone should poke around rockyou.txt and see…
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AboutDFIR Content Update 11/22/2019

Happy Friday, all! Yet another minor update that I wanted to be brought to everyone's attention: Tools & Artifacts - Android - added links to Scott Lorenz's groundbreaking and informative EDL Mode guides: Mastering EDL Mode and Mastering EDL Test Points Social Media - added link to 13Cubed's YouTube channel which has many useful videos relating to various sub-disciplines of Digital Forensics including but not limited to Linux, Windows, Hashcat, Memory Forensics, etc. Also added…
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AboutDFIR Content Update 11/19/2019

Happy Tuesday, all! Minor update today so this will be another short one: Tools & Artifacts - Windows - more blogs posts for new and existing artifacts.  Tools & Artifacts - iOS - more blogs posts for new and existing artifacts.  Tools & Artifacts - OS X - more blogs posts for new and existing artifacts. AboutDFIR Home Page - site title has been updated so blog feeds should now read as AboutDFIR - The…
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AboutDFIR Content Update 11/17/2019

Happy Sunday, all! Minor update today so this will be a short one: Tools & Artifacts - Windows - more blogs posts for new and existing artifacts.  Tools and Artifacts - File Systems - added a couple blog posts to start out. More to come in due time. AboutDFIR Home Page - a couple broken links have been updated.  Cheers, Andrew
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AboutDFIR Content Update 11/16/2019

Today's update is about fixing some readability issues on mobile devices with the data tables. I went through the entire site A-Z on my Google Pixel 2 XL to identify mobile readability issues and I think I've fixed them all. As a result, the following pages have been updated to provide a much more pleasant mobile experience: Tools & Artifacts - Android Tools & Artifacts - File Systems Tools & Artifacts - iOS Tools &…
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AboutDFIR Content Update 11/15/2019

Happy Friday everyone! Expect a higher tempo of posts from me regarding site content updates. As long as I change something on the site on a given day, I will make a quick blog post about it. This will allow me to keep everyone abreast on all the changes occurring on this site and to ensure everyone is aware of what information is being updated in a more timely manner. I will start with the…
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Just Another AboutDFIR Content Update

I hope everyone is having a great weekend! This has always been one of my favorite times of the year as a Veteran and (former) Marine. Today is the USMC's 244th birthday and tomorrow is Veteran's Day! For those who fall into my very same demographic, this is a great couple of days for us to celebrate and reflect. I am looking forward to celebrating those who've served before me and remembering all the sacrifices…
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An Overview of Recent and Future Content Updates

Happy Wednesday to everyone! We are halfway to the weekend and with that I bring to light some updates the site has experienced since I've joined the AboutDFIR team. Again, I'd like to thank Devon Ackerman for giving me the opportunity to contribute to a site in which I've long admired from afar. The Scholarships page has been updated with many new scholarships for DFIR students. I've also added an expiration date column so both…
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New AboutDFIR Contributor

Greetings all, my name is Andrew Rathbun. For more about my background, see my entry on this page. I am excited to be given the opportunity to contribute to AboutDFIR as it is a project I have admired from afar for as long as I knew of its existence. This compendium is akin to something I would create myself had it not already existed. A compendium of this magnitude caters to my interests as a…
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Weekend of Updates

Looking for Annual Reports on Industry Threats and Trends? https://aboutdfir.com/annual-industry-reports/ Overhauled Blog page to now focus on corporate and blogs not associated with any one specific author.  All of the author specific data has been pulled out and dropped into Men of #DFIR and Women of #DFIR pages. https://aboutdfir.com/reading/blogs/
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#women in #dfir

Across the Cyber Security, Info. Security, and DFIR industries, women are enhancing the ranks of investigative digital sciences to solve problems, investigate crimes, and protect networks. Many organizations have been formed to recognize women who are entering the market, completing higher education in Digital Forensics, and leading in innovation, speaking engagements, and research projects. https://aboutdfir.com/women-of-dfir/ is now live and dedicated to those women.  More to be added in the coming months.
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Site Update to DFIR Research page

Jessica Hyde (@B1N2H3X) and Jonathan Wiley with a fresh idea for creation of a forensic image for public consumption, testing, and educational purposes of device running iOS 10 with robust documentation! https://aboutdfir.com/dfir-research/ page updated!
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Site Updates

Busy weekend with new Certification and Training courses added, new Incident Response/Breach report added, DFIR Research additions and updated links, and even new tool updates.
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Catching Up

I took some time this weekend to catch-up a bit with AboutDFIR and add some of the content I've been too busy to share.  I've got tons more, so that will be coming as time allows.  I know Devon has stated it, but I'll reiterate, the links that we add often have context and so I've decided to take a few minutes to add some backstory around the new additions I've made this weekend. First,…
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AboutDFIR.com updates across the board

Tons of updates across the website this weekend to include the new Tools section: Tools & Artifacts - Android Tools & Artifacts - File Systems Tools & Artifacts - Windows In addition, the existing Conferences page received a big update with the addition of CFP information.
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